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Speaker 2: At follow Adam a Adam Mosley. I'm going to Disney World
Speaker 2: where the Clippers just won in Orlando ninety six to
Speaker 2: eighty seven over the Magic. Welcome in a Clippers stock.
Speaker 2: I'm out of Osland with you for about the next
Speaker 2: forty minutes. Here. Eight seven seven five to two zero
Speaker 2: eleven fifty is the phone number. Eight seven seven five
Speaker 2: to two zero eleven fifty. Huge victory for the Clippers
Speaker 2: because style of play and the magnitude of this ball game.
Speaker 2: There are only seven left. They needed this one after
Speaker 2: a loss in Cleveland yesterday, and they were able to
Speaker 2: beat the Orlando Magic at their own game. They want
Speaker 2: to pull you into the mud, into the muck. They
Speaker 2: want to drag you down with them, drag you down
Speaker 2: to where their field goal percentage is because their defense
Speaker 2: is that good and the Clippers only shot forty four
Speaker 2: percent from the field, but they hit so many big
Speaker 2: shots when they had to and their defense was even
Speaker 2: better than Orlandos when it needed to be. And the
Speaker 2: five offensive rebounds big time. Just an incredible victory. And
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard struggled with his shot because the Orlando Magic
Speaker 2: will do that to you. Eight of twenty two. Typically
Speaker 2: you say that's an off game. It is. I'm okay
Speaker 2: with it because he got to twenty two shots. He
Speaker 2: didn't see that he was three of thirteen and curl
Speaker 2: up and go in the feudal position, because Kawhi would
Speaker 2: never do that. He's a top seventy five player. Ever,
Speaker 2: this is what he does. Continues to believe in the
Speaker 2: next shot. Remember the game and the game winner against
Speaker 2: Sacramento he had. He was off that game, but he
Speaker 2: said the Kobe line, I'm going oh for thirty before
Speaker 2: I go ohver nine, before I go over ten. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna keep firing. He believes in that next shot going in,
Speaker 2: and his first two buckets of the fourth quarter were crucial.
Speaker 2: He had eight of his twenty one in the fourth.
Speaker 2: Some came during inconsequential time. You could say that runout
Speaker 2: with the dunk as I Vista Zubas gave it to
Speaker 2: him in transition to put him up. I think by
Speaker 2: ten game was in hand. But not those two buckets
Speaker 2: to start the fourth quarter. Not that tough fade away
Speaker 2: over Franz Wagner and then the little baseline righty push
Speaker 2: shot tough from Kawhi. This Clippers team overcame some shooting
Speaker 2: slumps in the ballgame. We expected it to happen. First quarter,
Speaker 2: they go about three minutes and fifteen seconds without a
Speaker 2: mad field goal. They're down by six heading out of
Speaker 2: the first quarters, twenty eight to twenty two. But something
Speaker 2: interesting we saw, and this is how I knew there
Speaker 2: was a different level of sense of urgency from coach Lou.
Speaker 2: Kawai came back in late in the first quarter. Drew
Speaker 2: Ju Banks had a really bad turnover. He and coach
Speaker 2: Lou had a conversation. He got pulled. Kawai came in
Speaker 2: with a minute left in the first quarter, after it
Speaker 2: had already come out. It doesn't ever come back in
Speaker 2: again this time he did. Still started the second I
Speaker 2: think played the entire second quarter. Started the second with
Speaker 2: the Clippers down six. Zuu batoum dj Kawhi, Bogie and
Speaker 2: Zoo started to get to work. When the Clippers took
Speaker 2: the lead, it was big Zoo in that second quarter.
Speaker 2: Zoo gets here's a bucket and is staring down the
Speaker 2: Magic bench. I think he was getting into it with
Speaker 2: Mo Wagner, former Laker Michigan guy, brother of Franz on
Speaker 2: the bench. He's out with an ACL injury. Sucks, but
Speaker 2: I think they were talking some junk. The Euros. Is
Speaker 2: that what so? Brian Shaw says. They call themselves and
Speaker 2: Mo Wagner German. They probably have some history. I don't
Speaker 2: know how much how friendly it was, but if Eata
Speaker 2: zubats a little fire under him, then he gets a
Speaker 2: putback and one the next possession down to put him
Speaker 2: up thirty one, two thirty. The Clippers would end up
Speaker 2: on a thirteen to two run after Viata Zubatch drew
Speaker 2: a foul in the second quarter, went to the free
Speaker 2: throw line hit both and the Magic were in a
Speaker 2: deep funk. They had just two points. Midway through the
Speaker 2: second quarter. The Clippers defense clamp City traveled. It was incredible.
Speaker 2: The Clippers ended up getting up by nine after what
Speaker 2: would be a fourteen to one run at forty to
Speaker 2: thirty one. Orlando went one for their first thirteen shots.
Speaker 2: Way went one for thirteen to start the second quarter
Speaker 2: from the field with five turnovers. Incredible, but then the
Speaker 2: Clippers gave it back after being up by nine. Hardened
Speaker 2: turnover Corey Joseph three after they had missed ten straight threes,
Speaker 2: hard at his float blocked Han's field goal. Now it's
Speaker 2: forty to thirty six. Done turnover, Ben Caro layups seven
Speaker 2: tozer magic run. Clippers only up by two. Kawhi misses
Speaker 2: the three. Casey p three and just like that, the
Speaker 2: Clippers are down forty one to forty. They were up
Speaker 2: by nine minutes later, quick run by Orlando. The Clippers
Speaker 2: ended up trailing by two after a Chris Dunn three
Speaker 2: pointer at the very end of the first half that
Speaker 2: would end with the magic sixteen to five run, and
Speaker 2: the Clippers are down by two after leading by nine
Speaker 2: in the second quarter, forty seven to forty five at
Speaker 2: the half. But Big Zoo was perfect in the first half.
Speaker 2: He was five of five and Carlo and I on
Speaker 2: the broadcast literally as they're about to get back to
Speaker 2: action to start that third quarter, they're like you know,
Speaker 2: might want to give it to a Viza Zubots. He
Speaker 2: hasn't missed a shot. He got the first bucket, the
Speaker 2: first opportunity with a hook shot to start the third quarter.
Speaker 2: It's forty seven. All Clippers, though, would get down fifty
Speaker 2: three to forty nine. After the Magic made a little
Speaker 2: bit of a run and the Clippers had back to
Speaker 2: back turnovers. VERSU was James Harden, then it was Kawhi.
Speaker 2: Leonard ben Carro got a friendly role. They were down
Speaker 2: fifty one to forty seven. They had a possession where
Speaker 2: Kawhi missed zoo offensive rebound. Then Norm gets blocked by
Speaker 2: Wendell Carter. Then done missus a three. They had extra opportunities.
Speaker 2: They couldn't do anything with it. Wendell Carter Junior hits
Speaker 2: a jumper. They're up six timeout, Clippers out of the timeout.
Speaker 2: Norm quick layup going right. It's fifty three to forty nine.
Speaker 2: Then a done Steele to Zubats for a long floater
Speaker 2: fifty three to fifty one. Another stop in Kawhi ties
Speaker 2: the game at fifty three as he went to the line.
Speaker 2: The Clippers ended up going on a nine to oh run.
Speaker 2: It was critical after Kawhi was fouled on a floater.
Speaker 2: He went to the line, went one of two. It
Speaker 2: was a nine oh run for the Clippers. But this
Speaker 2: was one of the biggest moments of the game. There
Speaker 2: were a few of them. When it's a tight contest
Speaker 2: like this, when it's a low scoring affair, it makes
Speaker 2: every possession so critical. I love a game like this,
Speaker 2: not all the time, but I love it once in
Speaker 2: a while. I'll tell you what change after we pause
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Speaker 2: After Kawhi had a push shot to put the Clippers
Speaker 2: up fifty eight to fifty five, Ben Carol hit a
Speaker 2: three to tie the game. Bogie comes in for Norm
Speaker 2: at the four to eleven mark of the third Kawhi
Speaker 2: goes out of the ball game two. Harden gets a
Speaker 2: lefty layup to go. It's sixty to fifty eight Clippers.
Speaker 2: Then Harden has a steal and a layup off a
Speaker 2: bad pass from Orlando. Clippers are up by four. It
Speaker 2: was just a tie game at fifty eight. Now it's
Speaker 2: sixty two fifty eight Clippers. Anthony Black floater two point game, Harden,
Speaker 2: but toom Zou Bogie and DJ is your five man lineup.
Speaker 2: Harden hits a three, Clippers up five. Franz Wadner goes
Speaker 2: through the UH Charity stripe and Harden and DJ had
Speaker 2: an animated conversation. But at the end of it they
Speaker 2: dapped each other up. They did their cool handshake. I
Speaker 2: love seeing it because at first I was a little
Speaker 2: bit concerned Harden was telling Derek Jones junior or something.
Speaker 2: It was all good afterwards, good leadership. It's a three
Speaker 2: point game. Anthony Black would miss like the next three
Speaker 2: shots for the Orlando Magic, but Harden misses a three
Speaker 2: and DJ has a huge put back dunk to make
Speaker 2: it sixty seven to sixty five Clippers. After that little
Speaker 2: conversation between those two, van Harden gets a floater Goaltending's
Speaker 2: called sixty nine sixty two Clippers. Franz would floater to
Speaker 2: floater the other way. It's a five point game. Harden
Speaker 2: got blocked, Franz layup. It's a three point game. You
Speaker 2: can say it's just a three point game. In a
Speaker 2: game like this with points at a Premium. It felt
Speaker 2: like a six or seven point lead for the Clippers
Speaker 2: heading into the fourth, up sixty nine to sixty six.
Speaker 2: It was just three points, but remember they were down
Speaker 2: two heading in to the third quarter, so they went
Speaker 2: plus five and James Harden just had some great plays
Speaker 2: there down the stretch of the third when Kawhi went out.
Speaker 2: Now Kawhi comes back in to start the fourth, starts
Speaker 2: with Franz Vogner missing a three. The Clippers have but
Speaker 2: toom Kawhi, DJ Bogie and Norm out there. Norm gets
Speaker 2: a layup going right, and I'm starting to get excited
Speaker 2: because because mister fourth quarter for this team, as he
Speaker 2: has been the last two seasons, scores their first points
Speaker 2: of the fourth and he would end up with nine
Speaker 2: of his twenty one points in the fourth. Norman Powell
Speaker 2: Franz gets a layup. Then DJ hits a three off
Speaker 2: a quick feed from Kawhi Leonard as they were moving
Speaker 2: the ball beautifully, seventy four to sixty eight. Derek Jones
Speaker 2: Junior big shot. But the Clippers were starting to get
Speaker 2: in foul trouble. I was worried. They picked up two
Speaker 2: fouls the first two minutes of the fourth thought they
Speaker 2: might get into the penalty early. Kawhi, though, then hits
Speaker 2: a fade away over Franz Wagner tough, tough shot, unguardable.
Speaker 2: Clippers are up eight. Ben Carro comes right back with
Speaker 2: an a one five point game. Now Kawhi floater on
Speaker 2: the right baseline over two seven point game. Kawhi gets
Speaker 2: a block on Franz on the other but the Magic
Speaker 2: got it to go after an extra opportunity. The Clippers
Speaker 2: were just in an absolute dog fight. Harden comes in
Speaker 2: for Kawhi at the eight minute mark. He misses a layup,
Speaker 2: Bogie gets to steal on Ben Carro, and norm then
Speaker 2: gets the easy layup. There was from wild turnovers back
Speaker 2: and forth and just chaotic sequences like that. The Clippers
Speaker 2: are up eighty to seventy five. Now in the fourth,
Speaker 2: not the third, it feels like a third quarter score. No,
Speaker 2: it's the fourth in this defensive heavyweight battle. Now you
Speaker 2: get the Bogey steal on ben Caro, and Bogie takes
Speaker 2: it the other way and knocks down a like I'm
Speaker 2: putting this on my shoulders right now. I know I
Speaker 2: haven't hit a shot, but it's my time, and I
Speaker 2: mean man, Carroll was in transition, Bogie is backing up,
Speaker 2: and it looked like James Harden with the countless strips
Speaker 2: he had in this ballgame, like it was permeating throughout
Speaker 2: the team, like Bogie said, Oh, it's that easy to
Speaker 2: get a steal. Now it's my turn. I'll get one
Speaker 2: on Ben Carroll. And I think that ended up in
Speaker 2: a normal layup. But then the very next possession it
Speaker 2: was Boge getting that three pointer. This is one I'd
Speaker 2: like to see again. I got a check and make
Speaker 2: sure I got this sequence right in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: because it was wild, guys, I'm telling you. At eight
Speaker 2: to seventy five, they called it a Bogie block on
Speaker 2: Ben Carroll at least on what I saw. So it
Speaker 2: was his block. What should have been an easy two
Speaker 2: that would have brought Orlando to within one, or it
Speaker 2: could have been an in one another one for Ban Carrow.
Speaker 2: Instead it's a block from Boge in transition backing up
Speaker 2: against Ban Carrol, an incredible play, and instead the Clippers
Speaker 2: getting easy one going the other way from Norman Powell.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about a four point swing. Now they're
Speaker 2: up eighty to seventy five. Anthony Black misses, Bogey gets
Speaker 2: the rebound, brings up the floor, no pass needed. He's
Speaker 2: gonna take that three point shot and hit it with
Speaker 2: six forty five left to put them by eight, their
Speaker 2: largest lead at that time. Incredible, incredible from Bogey. He's
Speaker 2: been one of my favorite players for a long time.
Speaker 2: I'm biased, I know, but I love seeing it. Now.
Speaker 2: We got done, Norm Hardened, Boge and Zoo bots out there.
Speaker 2: Bogie misses a three, Ben Carro miss, Zoo rebound, Harden floater.
Speaker 2: Lead goes from eight to ten. Corey Joseph quickly hits
Speaker 2: a three pointer, seven point game, hard and bad turnover
Speaker 2: and Wendell Carter Junior gets the steal, gets into Franz
Speaker 2: layup from KCP. Five point game. Starters back in at
Speaker 2: the four thirty six mark for the Clippers. Now, I
Speaker 2: saw some people on Twitter that were Hayden on Chris
Speaker 2: Dunn being back in, But I think it worked out
Speaker 2: just fine with the starters late in the game to
Speaker 2: close things out. They get back in. It's a five
Speaker 2: point game. Zoo miss is a spinning floater, but the
Speaker 2: Magic have a miss on the other end and Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard gets a board. Underrated part of this ballgame underrated
Speaker 2: part of Kawhi Leonard. He had eight rebounds, not easy
Speaker 2: to come by when Big Zoo has twenty. In almost
Speaker 2: another twenty twenty game, he had eighteen inch twenty, but
Speaker 2: Kawhi was flying for some of those rebounds. James Now
Speaker 2: misses along two, Chris Dunn gets a tip out for
Speaker 2: another possession, Nor misses a three. Done gets another tipout,
Speaker 2: another offensive rebound, and this time Norman Palell hits the three,
Speaker 2: huge shot put him back up by eight. Ben Carro
Speaker 2: now loses it off the strip from James Harden going
Speaker 2: down the lane. James Harden quick hands Kawhi would miss,
Speaker 2: but if Hesa Zubos got the board and was fouled,
Speaker 2: goes one of two Clippers up nine. Then Done gets
Speaker 2: a crazy deflection, but couldn't come up with the basketball
Speaker 2: as he is slipping sliding onto the court next to Franz.
Speaker 2: Couldn't get it. Magic ball. Wendell Carter Junior, easy two
Speaker 2: headed dunk. Done, then throws a pass a little bit
Speaker 2: too low to Zoo. It's broken up and there's a
Speaker 2: foul undone Joseph to the line. Five point game. It
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna be easy. Norm draws a foul the other
Speaker 2: way hits both seven point game clutch free throws by
Speaker 2: Norman Powell. Don't discount that stuff. We've seen the Clippers
Speaker 2: miss too many big shots at the charity stripe this season.
Speaker 2: Harden gets another strip on Ben Carro. It goes off
Speaker 2: of his knee and out of bounce. I think that
Speaker 2: was the one I was thinking of originally done misses
Speaker 2: the three. Ben Carrow misses a three, Harden gets fouled,
Speaker 2: goes to the line. The Clippers end up putting this
Speaker 2: one away, even with him going one of two. As so,
Speaker 2: why had a runout dunk where a Visa Zubos was
Speaker 2: looking for him in transition and a ten point lead
Speaker 2: in the game like this felt like twenty and the
Speaker 2: Clippers go on to win by nine. Kawhi would knock
Speaker 2: down two more free throws at the very end. Ninety
Speaker 2: six to eighty seven was your final quick time out.
Speaker 2: We'll come back, We'll get to your phone calls eight
Speaker 2: seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven
Speaker 2: five to two zero eleven fifty. What a win Clipper
Speaker 2: Nation needed. It had to have it. Kawhi wasn't at
Speaker 2: his best, but was when it was required late and
Speaker 2: James Harden finding other ways to contribute. Six steals might
Speaker 2: have been seven, might have been eight. My box core
Speaker 2: says six. I'm out of Maslin and you're listening to
Speaker 2: Clippers hock here on the Patriot M loven fifty.
Speaker 1: I love this team. I never miss a game.
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Speaker 3: right here on the LA Clippers Audio network.
Speaker 2: Clippers win in Orlando ninety six to eighty seven over
Speaker 2: the Magic. I'm out of Mosland and with that, the
Speaker 2: Clippers have clinched a better record than Phoenix and Sacramento.
Speaker 2: And we'll be in the playing tournament. At the very least,
Speaker 2: we're aiming higher, but at the very least we'll be
Speaker 2: in the play in tournament. Saw that from La Murray
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky. He also pointed out that this was
Speaker 2: an Orlando Magic game. To a tee. The Clippers beat
Speaker 2: them at their own game. They're dead, lasting points in
Speaker 2: the paint, they're almost last in pace. This was a
Speaker 2: classic Orlando Magic game if you pay attention to this
Speaker 2: squad at all, and the Clippers beat them anyways in
Speaker 2: their place that is a very good road win. So
Speaker 2: most games with twenty points in a month over Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard's career, He's had twelve now in March of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. He had twelve in March of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: twelve in January of twenty twenty one, twelve in December
Speaker 2: of twenty eighteen with the Raptors, and twelve in November
Speaker 2: of twenty sixteen with the San Antonio Spurs. Bar Gov
Speaker 2: from Maryland, You're on clipperstop with out of Maaz and
Speaker 2: what's up.
Speaker 4: My guy? Ay? Two? What's up man?
Speaker 2: How are we doing? How are you feeling after this one?
Speaker 4: Feeling good? Dude? That was just a classic blue collar,
Speaker 4: dirty ugly two thousand and five Eastern Conference basketball.
Speaker 2: Then bring your lunch Pale.
Speaker 4: That was some four Pistons pacers. You know, just pretty physical, dirty,
Speaker 4: dirty stuff. Man.
Speaker 2: It was like the five Piston Spurs finals exactly.
Speaker 4: Exactly, yeah, man, I mean you summed it up great.
Speaker 4: It was the team stuck with it. You know, two
Speaker 4: best guys didn't shoot well, turnovers, but they defended. You know,
Speaker 4: they stayed in it, they stayed aggressive. Everyone else contributed, man,
Speaker 4: Like the literally zubach I would say was the MVP,
Speaker 4: especially the first half. He held it down hard in
Speaker 4: the third quarter and it just the bench man. Everyone contributed.
Speaker 4: They played hard, defensively, done was everywhere obviously but you
Speaker 4: name it. But toom dj norm everyone just literally everyone
Speaker 4: Bogdanovich defense, like everyone was just keeping their guy in front,
Speaker 4: you know, active with their hands and yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: I think like you were saying, Kawhi, just battling through
Speaker 4: a tough shooting, tough shooting night. Was was great to
Speaker 4: see and.
Speaker 2: Why it is so mentally tough to start three or
Speaker 2: thirteen and to still get over twenty points, to still
Speaker 2: have the confidence to take the type of shots that
Speaker 2: he takes, the high degree of difficulty jumpers that he
Speaker 2: was able to get to go in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: especially that fall away over Franz and the push shot
Speaker 2: on the right baseline over the double team. It's like,
Speaker 2: you know, how much confidence you got to have in
Speaker 2: yourself and how you know you have to have that
Speaker 2: next play mentality, not just next man up, but next
Speaker 2: play like whatever, like keep firing.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and that's a tall, strong, physical defense, multiple bodies
Speaker 4: that make it tough on you, you know, so for
Speaker 4: him to just keep fighting, keep fighting, keep fighting, getting
Speaker 4: in the lane more. You know, he adjusted to their
Speaker 4: physicality as the game went on, and yeah, it was fantastic,
Speaker 4: hardened six deals. I mean, you know, third quarter had
Speaker 4: that flurry and you know, I want to highlight one play.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna play uh you know, pop uh
Speaker 4: pop Philosopher here. There was one play that I think
Speaker 4: is very It's almost a life lesson, you know. I
Speaker 4: think it was a third quarter where Harden Zubasch ran
Speaker 4: a pick and roll. Zubach got deposition on a switch.
Speaker 4: He was calling for the ball, pleading for it. Uh,
Speaker 4: Harden didn't give it to him for whatever reason, but
Speaker 4: he drove, you know, so Zubach got out of the
Speaker 4: way and Harden drove. As he was driving, Zubach got
Speaker 4: he got pissed basically, but then in a split second
Speaker 4: he just says f that and he just runs to
Speaker 4: the rim. Harden ends up making the layup. He didn't
Speaker 4: have to give a putback or anything, but you know,
Speaker 4: he just sprints it back into it. And that to
Speaker 4: me was like that's life. You know. Sometimes you fight
Speaker 4: hard for a good position, you don't get it. You
Speaker 4: get pissed, but you just quickly bounce back. You quickly
Speaker 4: get back into the play and boom. You know, you
Speaker 4: stay positive. And that's what the Clippers have done. Man,
Speaker 4: they just fought. That was a very uh micro you know,
Speaker 4: micro example of what you need to do as a
Speaker 4: team and as we do his people in life.
Speaker 2: So I love that, Bargov. Some people be saying it's
Speaker 2: not that deep. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is.
Speaker 1: That's real.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 4: I'm the anti not that deep guy in the group chat.
Speaker 4: You know you need one of those guys. I'll just
Speaker 4: philosophize everything.
Speaker 2: O love the phone call, Bargov. Hope to talk to
Speaker 2: you on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: All right, yep, take care of them, Barga.
Speaker 2: With a phone call. We'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 2: We'll come back. You'll hear from Viza Zubats who, by
Speaker 2: the way, finished with eighteen and twenty and five assists.
Speaker 3: I think the.
Speaker 2: Clippers have lost one game this season when he gets
Speaker 2: four assists or more. But yes, he didn't get the
Speaker 2: basketball in that possession. Okay, how can you still help
Speaker 2: the team there? He ended up doing it. He ended
Speaker 2: up still crashing down there doing the hard stuff, great
Speaker 2: great memory and recall there from bargov Clippers win ninety
Speaker 2: six to eighty seven in Orlando over the magic quick
Speaker 2: time out, will come back. More Clippers dock here on
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Speaker 1: I love this team. I never miss a game.
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Speaker 2: And certainly what felt like a must win game, the
Speaker 2: Clippers got that win ninety six to eighty seven in
Speaker 2: Orlando over the magic. Welcome back in. I'm Adam Mosland.
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Speaker 2: fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go to tagus in Walnut. Been
Speaker 2: too long, Tags?
Speaker 5: How you been all right?
Speaker 4: Know?
Speaker 5: Adam? You know I got busy, takes care of the
Speaker 5: folks and work. But you know I listened to you
Speaker 5: and Carlo on the radio on these early games, and
Speaker 5: you guys just do an amazing job make the drive
Speaker 5: so much easier. So I wanted to say that first.
Speaker 2: Oh, I appreciate that, man, Carlo makes it the easy listen.
Speaker 2: I'm just there. I'm just a guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you do a great job, Adam. And but yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, like you said, Adam, everyone had a hand
Speaker 5: in the game. And like DJ, he had that put
Speaker 5: back dunk and he's having some amazing highlight reel put
Speaker 5: back dunks this year, and that one was just amazing.
Speaker 5: And he had a big three in the in the
Speaker 5: early in the fourth quarter, and then like you said,
Speaker 5: Bogie had that feel in three and the biggest possession
Speaker 5: of the game was when I think they were up five,
Speaker 5: like you said, and Dunk got those two offensive boards
Speaker 5: and Powell hit that three. I mean that really kind
Speaker 5: of gave him a little bit of comfort right there.
Speaker 5: But he also had that one tip and it went
Speaker 5: all the way to the back court and Orlando only
Speaker 5: had like three seconds to put the shot up.
Speaker 2: So now that's a good point. Even though he didn't
Speaker 2: get the steal, he ran down the shot clock there
Speaker 2: because of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that totally reminds me of a Pat Bev play,
Speaker 5: him diving and doing that. Its just, I mean, people
Speaker 5: hating on him, they just don't know basketball. That said, Adam,
Speaker 5: you know when Kawi had that struggle early on, like
Speaker 5: after I think a week or two, and who's going
Speaker 5: through a slump. The only thing that worried me was
Speaker 5: last year, last season when he was playing so well,
Speaker 5: he had that training camp in preseason, and this year
Speaker 5: he didn't, and I didn't know if he would be
Speaker 5: able to get that shooting touch. It kind of reminded
Speaker 5: me of MJ when he came back for the half season.
Speaker 5: He never was vintage MJ until he went the foll
Speaker 5: year and had the preseason and training camp.
Speaker 2: And I kind of called BS on that because he
Speaker 2: averaged like thirty two in the first series I think
Speaker 2: against Charlotte, and he played well against Orlando. Accept at
Speaker 2: the end of some games, but keep going.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Well, even even eighty five percent of Kawhi.
Speaker 5: I feel like vintage Kauhi of last year is enough.
Speaker 5: Given how Powell's been playing and Big Zoo uh and
Speaker 5: I think we're in a good place. Just got to
Speaker 5: the role players can keep hitting their threes, so we're
Speaker 5: gonna be a tough team to beat. And lastly, Adam,
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say, uh, and we beat the
Speaker 5: Magic and speaking of the magic, there's another magic that
Speaker 5: I wanted to talk about. I wanted to say I
Speaker 5: thought Magic was the greatest laker of all time, but
Speaker 5: I wanted to say before said it again, the greatest
Speaker 5: no look that he ever threw was Zoo to the
Speaker 5: Clippers for the for the legend.
Speaker 2: Mike Muscala Tay just went legend here too. Hey, just
Speaker 2: thank you for the phone call. As always appreciates you.
Speaker 2: One of my favorites. UH missed hearing from you. Clippers
Speaker 2: didn't miss late in this game. They win ninety six
Speaker 2: to eighty seven. They played their best when their best
Speaker 2: was required, and it looked like they were going all
Speaker 2: out for this victory because they need to be right
Speaker 2: now it's just seven games left. They look like they
Speaker 2: played with desperation out there, knowing that the dreaded playing
Speaker 2: is right there. It's looming, it's lurking behind them. It's
Speaker 2: the Jaws music. No no, no, no no. You want
Speaker 2: to stay out of the water, stay out of the planet,
Speaker 2: and hopefully the Clippers are able to We'll update you
Speaker 2: on the standings when we come back. Eight seven seven
Speaker 2: five to two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five
Speaker 2: two zero eleven fifty Clippers win ninety six to eighty
Speaker 2: seven in Orlando and just a complete dogfight of a
Speaker 2: basketball game. But this is the type of stuff you're
Speaker 2: going to see in the playoffs. This translates to the postseason.
Speaker 2: I'm out of Mauslim and this is Clippers talk here
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Speaker 1: I love this team. I never miss a game.
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Speaker 3: right here on the LA Clippers Audio network.
Speaker 2: Clippers are victorious. They go three and one on the
Speaker 2: four game road trip. They book ended with a victory
Speaker 2: in Orlando ninety six to eighty seven. Are they going
Speaker 2: to Disney World after No, there's plenty of work to
Speaker 2: be done with seven games left. But I want to
Speaker 2: hear from coach Lou postgame here on Clippers Talk after
Speaker 2: this big win.
Speaker 6: Just taking care of basketball. You know, we was up
Speaker 6: nine and turn the ball I think three times in
Speaker 6: a row, and they second, you know, regain the lead
Speaker 6: and take the leading like you said at halftime, So
Speaker 6: you know, eleven turnovers at halftime with just way too many.
Speaker 6: And we talked about it before last time we played
Speaker 6: this team, we had twenty five turnovers and so second
Speaker 6: half only having five turnovers. Taking care of basketball, we
Speaker 6: got good quality shots. They were a really good defensive team.
Speaker 6: Some shots we didn't make, and sometimes they were just
Speaker 6: playing really good defense.
Speaker 7: You mentioned the turnovers improving here too. From that point. Obviously,
Speaker 7: Kawhi has been kind of balancing back here lately.
Speaker 5: Tonight.
Speaker 6: I thought the second half he he got his rhythm back,
Speaker 6: you know, I thought he struggled in the first half.
Speaker 6: Second half kind of found his rhythm. But defensively, and
Speaker 6: like I said, I thought we were really good all
Speaker 6: night long, you know, outside the turnovers, giving 'em free
Speaker 6: transition points, but defensively it is where we gonna make
Speaker 6: our mark and our staple, and now it carried us
Speaker 6: through tonight.
Speaker 7: Typically the man chick in the third quarter had their struggles,
Speaker 7: but in the real things to that kind of make
Speaker 7: sure they they stayed out of reach in the fourth
Speaker 7: quarter towards the enders, or take you to kind of
Speaker 7: lock that down to finish out strong.
Speaker 6: Yeah, defense, you know, I thought we did a good
Speaker 6: job of Garden. I thought our small unit really did
Speaker 6: a good job of turning the game around, just going
Speaker 6: small and be able to switch one through five, be
Speaker 6: able to scramble, and then we did a good job
Speaker 6: with that. And so uh by no stretch for offensively,
Speaker 6: you know, only scoring ninety six points, but holding him
Speaker 6: to eighty seven points was huge for US.
Speaker 2: Coachoo talking a little bit about James Harden able to
Speaker 2: impose his will and just kind of handle the.
Speaker 1: Ball, run the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought, you know, he really got it going.
Speaker 6: We was able to tack some mismatches. He's able to
Speaker 6: get downhill, get into the paint, score the basketball in
Speaker 6: that second half. And that's what he's done for us
Speaker 6: all year alone, you know, him and Norm you know,
Speaker 6: Zoo and Kawha's absence being great, you know. And so
Speaker 6: for James, like I said, to get going that second
Speaker 6: half really helped us out a lot.
Speaker 2: Word hard Clippers wanted it more at the end.
Speaker 6: Talk a little bit about that, Nah, I can't say that.
Speaker 6: I mean, we just know that, you know, every game
Speaker 6: for US is a playoff game, you know, trying to
Speaker 6: get to that sixth seed, and so you know, we're
Speaker 6: scrapping for our lives. And I thought they did the
Speaker 6: same thing. Like I said, most had him ready to play.
Speaker 6: They were scrapping and competing, and they miss some shots
Speaker 6: that they normally make as well. You know, so when
Speaker 6: you got the two and three deep into teams in
Speaker 6: the league playing against each other, it's gonna be nice
Speaker 6: like this, you know. And so like I said, they
Speaker 6: guarded the heck out of us, and it was hard
Speaker 6: for us to score to basketball. And so you know,
Speaker 6: that's what most brings to this team, is just tough
Speaker 6: in its defense. And like I said, we had we
Speaker 6: had we had struggle scoring the basketball.
Speaker 7: Coach, talk about finishing this year around.
Speaker 2: You guys wanted to continue to play well going into
Speaker 2: the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, having seven games left, you know, going back home
Speaker 6: for five in a row. You know, so we got
Speaker 6: to take care of home. That's gonna be our main thing.
Speaker 6: If we take care of home like we're supposed to,
Speaker 6: then I think would be in some really good shape.
Speaker 7: Coach, you mentioned it, We're gonna be some tell teams
Speaker 7: playing each other defensively. If there's a particular par takeaway
Speaker 7: like this, uh, a particular thing that happened tonight that
Speaker 7: you played to see happen to finish out the season,
Speaker 7: what you.
Speaker 3: Take with if you like to see keep happen.
Speaker 6: Rebound the basketball, you know, I think, yeah, we our
Speaker 6: rebound on forty eight to thirty two. You know, so
Speaker 6: just rebounding the basketball something that we struggled with in
Speaker 6: the past. This year we've gotten a lot better, you know,
Speaker 6: Big Zoo having twenty you know tonight, you know, so
Speaker 6: just you know, continue to rebound the basketball, continue to
Speaker 6: get back in transition, take care of the basketball. Those
Speaker 6: are the three things that really stand out to me.
Speaker 7: You mentioned doing his thing. You know, when you have
Speaker 7: Kawhi and Harden on the floor together, they're gondraw a
Speaker 7: lot of attention. What is it like happening in that set?
Speaker 4: Like being super Ney to go is another.
Speaker 7: Option to kind of keep things baalance.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's huge. You know, Zoo's being huge
Speaker 6: for us all year. Gives us the post presence downloaded,
Speaker 6: slow the game down, to calm the game down, great
Speaker 6: around the rim, in those short rolls, and so, you know,
Speaker 6: he's been really good, and like I said, he's really
Speaker 6: developed and got better and better each year.
Speaker 2: Thanks to hoop Jab for the postgame audio from coach
Speaker 2: Lou after the Clippers win ninety six to eighty seven
Speaker 2: in Orlando. And improved a forty three and forty two
Speaker 2: in this regular season, and as coach Lou said, they're
Speaker 2: all playoff games now, they're all playoff games with just
Speaker 2: seven remaining. Starting back it into a Dome for a
Speaker 2: five game homestand Wednesday night against the New Orleans Pelicans
Speaker 2: seven thirty tip pregame show right back here at six
Speaker 2: thirty before we get out of here, I do want
Speaker 2: to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, who else sorry
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Speaker 2: Jimenez on the call, Big Brother, Jake Warnercy On Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Daniel West, our producer, back here in the bank. Great
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Speaker 2: I'm Adam Oz and we'll talk to you then.
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